linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with keys in the secondary keyring to boot

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Date:   Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:02:14 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     yannik@...britzki.me
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Justin Forbes <jforbes@...hat.com>,
        Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix kexec forbidding kernels signed with keys in the
 secondary keyring to boot

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:42 PM Yannik Sembritzki <yannik@...britzki.me> wrote:
>
> I've written two patches for (a) the logical change of allowing kernels
> signed with keys in the secondary keyring to be kexec'd (b) the refactoring
> of the magic 1UL Linus requested.

Just coming back to this original submission: I've applied the
slightly modified version of this series from David Howells, so it's
upstream and marked for stable now.

                  Linus